Part 7 (2/2)

_Pho_ [_poirl you promised for my wife, I'll marry her: but if you want her to stay with you, why, the dowry stays with ht that I should lose this on your account, when it was for the sake of your honor that I broke with the other girl as offering the sa talk, you jail-bird!

Do you suppose that I don't see through you and your tricks? _Pho_ Look out, I' hot _Deave her to you? _Pho_ Just try me and see _Dem_ [_with a sneer_] O yes, your scheme is to have nantly_] What do you iveto court with me _Pho_ You'd better look out! If you don't stop-- _De to Chreirls under my protection I'll have you know I soirls with dowries too _Chr_ [_with a guilty start_] What's that to us? _Pho_ O nothing I kneoman here once whose husband had-- _Chr_ O! _Dem_ What's that? _Pho_ Another wife in Lehter; and he's bringing her up on the quiet _Chr_ I's I'll tell his real wife _Chr_ Good gracious, don't do that! _Pho_ Oho! You were the e_] How the villain gao

_Pho_ The deuce you say! _Chr_ Why, what do youthat you should keep the ue! do _you_your minds like a pair of silly boys? ”I won't, I will--I will, I won't, again--take it, give it back--what's said is unsaid--what's been agreed on is no go”--that's your style [_He turns to go away_]

_Chr_ [_apart_] How in the world did he find that out? _Dem_ I don't know, but I'leefully, aside_] I've put a spoke in their wheel! _Dem_ [_aside_] See here, Chremes, shall we let this rascal cheat us out of our h in our faces besides?

I'd rather die first Now make up your mind to be manly and resolute

You see that your secret is out, and that you can't keep it froer Nohat she is bound to learn from others it will be much better for her to hear from your own lips And then ill have the whip hand of this dirty fellow _Pho_ [_overhearing these words, aside_] Tut! tut! Unless I look out, I'll be in a hole

They're co at ive ain, one _Pho_ Is _that_ your game? I tell you, Dee that you are stirring me up [_To Chremes_] Look here, you! When you have followed your own devices abroad, and haven't thought enough of your oife to keep you froainst her, do you expect to come home and make it all up with a few tears? I tell you, I'll ainst you that you can't put out her wrath, not if you dissolve in tears _Deeously? _Chr_ [_all in a tremble_] I'm so rattled that I don't knohat to do with the fellow _Deo straight to court _Pho_ To court, is it? [_Dragging off toward Chre toward his own house_] Chremes, you catch hi off_]

I can't do it alone; you come here and help

Dee in a violent strugglethe worst of it, when he says:

Now I'll have to use my voice Nausistrata! Co to do so, without success_] See how strong the rascal is _Pho_ I say, Nausistrata! _Chr_ Won't you keep still? _Pho_ Not much

Nausistrata now appears at the door of her house; Phorleeful:

Here's wherethe disordered and excited condition of the men_] Why, what's all this row about, husband? Who is this ue-tied_] Won't you answer e, he doesn't knohere he is? _Chr_ [_tre with fear_] Don't you believe a word he says _Pho_ Go, touch him; if he isn't frozen stiff, you may strike me dead _Chr_ It isn't so

_Naus_ What is thisabout, then? _Pho_ You shall hear; just listen _Chr_ You aren't going to believe hiracious, how can I believe one who hasn't said anything yet? _Pho_ The poor fellow is crazy with fear _Naus_ Surely it's not for nothing that you are so afraid _Chr_ [_with chattering teeth_]

Wh-ho's afraid? _Pho_ Well then, since you're not afraid, and what I say is nothing, you tell the story yourself _De? _Pho_ [_conte for your brother _Naus_ Husband, won't you speak to me? _Chr_ Well--_Naus_ Well? _Chr_ There's no need of ht; but there's need of her knowing In Lemnos-- _Chr_ O don't! _Pho_ unbeknown to you-- _Chr_ O _] My husband! Heaven forbid _Pho_ But it's so, just the same _Naus_ O wretched hter--also unbeknown to you _Naus_ By all the Gods, a shameful and evil deed! _Pho_ But it's so, just the sa I ever heard of

[_Turning her back on Chreusted to speak to hi of those frequent journeys and long stays at Lemnos? Was _this_ why my rents ran down so? _Dem_ Nausistrata, I don't deny that he has been very much to blame in this ive hi for the dead _Deh any scorn or dislike of you that he did it And besides, the other wo you to bear this with equanis _Naus_ Why should I bear it with equanimity? I wish this were the end of the wretched business; but why should I hope it will be? Am I to think that he will be better now he's old? But he was old before, if that makes any difference Or am I any more beautiful and attractive now than I was, Deive ain?

Phore and announces in a loud official voice to the audience:

All ant to view the remains of Chremes, now come forward! The ti now, if any one else wants to stir up Phormio I'll fix him just like this poor wretch here--But there! he h She has so as he lives _Naus_ But I suppose I have deserved it Why should I recount to you, Demipho, all that I have been to this man? _Dem_ I know it all, Nausistrata, as well as you _Naus_ Well, have I deserved this treatment? _Dem_ By nohim, pardon him He confesses his sin, he prays for pardon, he proain: what more do you want?

_Pho_ [_aside_] Hold on here; before she pardons him, I must look out for myself and Phaedria Say, Nausistrata, wait a minute before you answer him _Naus_ Well? _Pho_ I tricked Chreave the money to your son, and he has used it to buy his ith _Chr_ [_angrily_] How? What do you say? _Naus_ [_to Chre for your son, a young man, to have one wife, when you, an old man, have had two? Shame on you! With what face will you rebuke him? Answer me that? [_Chremes slinks back without a word_] _Dem_ He will do as you say _Naus_ Well, then, here is , nor give you any answer at all, until I have seen my son And I shall do entirely as he says _Pho_ You are a oman, Nausistrata _Naus_ [_to Chremes_] Does that suit you? _Chr_ Does it? Indeed and truly I' off well--[_aside_]

and better than I expected _Naus_ [_to Phormio_] Come, tell reat friend to your family, and especially to Phaedria _Naus_ Phormio, I vow to you I am at your service after this, to do and to say, so far as I can, just what you want _Pho_ I thank you kindly, lady _Naus_ No, upon ht off, Nausistrata, and do so tears to your husband's eyes? _Naus_ That I do _Pho_ Well, then, invite me to dinner _Naus_ With all reed; but where is Phaedria, e? _Pho_ I'll soon have him here

And so ends this merry play, as the whole party moves toward Chremes'

house, where, let us hope, all fa them

Meanwhile the man before the curtain reminds us that we still have a duty to perforive us your applause

SUMMARY AND QUESTIONS FOR REVIEW

_The Roedians, from 240 to the first century B C: Andronicus Naevius, Ennius, Pacuvius, Accius The later tragedians to the close of the first century A D: Pollio, Varius, Ovid, Maternus, Secundus, Lucan, and Seneca The writers of comedy, second century B C: Plautus and Terence

1 How did the civilization of Rome in 454 B C compare with that of Greece? 2 How did Rome's conquest of the Greek colonies in Italy help the development of Italian literature? 3 How did the First Punic War affect this development? 4 Who was the ”first professor of Latin on record”? 5 Froedies taken? 6 How did the Roman spirit differ from that of the Greek? 7 Why did the Roedy?

8 What four names besides that of Andronicus are representative of the old Roedy? 9 What qualities of Accius do we find in the frags which reedy after Accius? 11 Why have the tragedies of Seneca special interest? 12 What are their defects? 13 What their strong qualities?

14 Why did the plays of Seneca have such an influence in England? 15

What is the outline of the story of Medea? 16 How does it illustrate Seneca's defects of style? 17 Quote passages which illustrate his skill in epigraraphic description 19 In pathos and passion 20

In subtile analysis of character and reat types of Greek comedy 22 What result followed the attempts of Naevius to write in the spirit of Old Comedy? 23 What triters alone of comedy are known to us from their works? 24 What are the chief characteristics of _Phormio_ of Terence?